Security Cleared Jobs in Wales

Security Clearance
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 14 25
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +43
Permanent jobs citing Security Cleared 229 226 162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 10.87% 13.44% 8.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 45.98% 34.88% 26.09%
Number of salaries quoted 54 42 35
10th Percentile £33,756 £24,409 £33,314
25th Percentile £41,435 £26,391 £37,057
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,800 £29,075 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +102.23% -48.31% +37.20%
75th Percentile £70,122 £49,600 £71,875
90th Percentile £82,500 £66,523 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Wales

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Wales with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 498 648 621
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 23.64% 38.55% 31.44%
Number of salaries quoted 187 227 226
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,391 £29,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +11.30%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,525 £60,938
90th Percentile £69,942 £68,928 £71,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in Wales

Security Cleared
Salary Trend in Wales

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales.

Salary trend for Security Cleared in Wales

Security Cleared
Salary Histogram in Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in Wales over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Security Cleared in Wales

Security Cleared
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Wales region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales +2 209 £58,800 +110.41% 21
West Wales +6 6 £46,131 -0.17% 2
Mid Wales - 4 £35,000 - 1
North Wales - 1 £33,500 - 3
Security Cleared
UK

Security Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (16.59%) WebLogic
2 30 (13.10%) Oracle Service Bus
3 27 (11.79%) ArcGIS
3 27 (11.79%) GeoServer
4 14 (6.11%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.31%) Confluence
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (13.97%) MS Visio
2 31 (13.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 30 (13.10%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.75%) Sketch
5 1 (0.44%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 33 (14.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (2.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 51 (22.27%) AWS
1 51 (22.27%) Azure
2 7 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (2.62%) Miro
4 5 (2.18%) Slack
5 4 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (1.75%) Azure API Management
5 4 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.75%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (1.75%) Figma
5 4 (1.75%) Heroku
5 4 (1.75%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.31%) dbt
6 3 (1.31%) SaaS
7 2 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.35%) Firewall
2 18 (7.86%) DNS
3 16 (6.99%) TCP/IP
4 14 (6.11%) IP Telephony
4 14 (6.11%) Wireless
5 12 (5.24%) LAN
5 12 (5.24%) WAN
6 11 (4.80%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (4.80%) Cisco IOS
7 6 (2.62%) SSL
8 5 (2.18%) SAN
9 4 (1.75%) BGP
10 3 (1.31%) Software-Defined Radio
10 3 (1.31%) VPN
11 2 (0.87%) Network Security
12 1 (0.44%) FTP
12 1 (0.44%) Internet
12 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
12 1 (0.44%) SMTP
12 1 (0.44%) Sourcefire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.72%) Oracle Database
2 30 (13.10%) Oracle Database 10g
2 30 (13.10%) Oracle Database 11g
2 30 (13.10%) VLDB
3 29 (12.66%) GIS
4 27 (11.79%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (11.79%) QGIS
5 10 (4.37%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.93%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.06%) MySQL
8 5 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.87%) Big Data
10 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.87%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.87%) Delta Lake
10 2 (0.87%) Geospatial Data
11 1 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.06%) JIRA
2 5 (2.18%) GitLab
3 3 (1.31%) Git
4 2 (0.87%) JMeter
4 2 (0.87%) Selenium
5 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.44%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.44%) MSTest
5 1 (0.44%) Serenity BDD
5 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (0.44%) Terragrunt
5 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (23.14%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (9.61%) Finance
4 21 (9.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.80%) Telecoms
7 9 (3.93%) Games
8 7 (3.06%) Banking
9 5 (2.18%) Police
9 5 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.87%) Legal
10 2 (0.87%) Retail
11 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.44%) Local Government
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 80 (34.93%) Senior
2 50 (21.83%) Analyst
3 35 (15.28%) Architect
4 34 (14.85%) Applications Support
4 34 (14.85%) Applications Support Analyst
4 34 (14.85%) Support Analyst
5 30 (13.10%) Oracle Analyst
5 30 (13.10%) Oracle Support Analyst
5 30 (13.10%) Software Engineer
5 30 (13.10%) SQL Analyst
5 30 (13.10%) SQL Support Analyst
6 28 (12.23%) Lead
7 18 (7.86%) Senior Software Engineer
8 14 (6.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 14 (6.11%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 14 (6.11%) Network Engineer
8 14 (6.11%) Senior Network Engineer
9 13 (5.68%) Consultant
10 12 (5.24%) Technical Leader
11 11 (4.80%) Project Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.41%) React
2 27 (11.79%) Leaflet
2 27 (11.79%) OpenLayers
2 27 (11.79%) PostGIS
3 23 (10.04%) .NET
3 23 (10.04%) .NET Core
3 23 (10.04%) CSS
4 7 (3.06%) Node.js
5 5 (2.18%) Django
5 5 (2.18%) HTML
5 5 (2.18%) Java EE
5 5 (2.18%) Spring
5 5 (2.18%) Spring Boot
6 4 (1.75%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.75%) J2EE
6 4 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (1.31%) Express.js
8 2 (0.87%) Web Services
9 1 (0.44%) XML
9 1 (0.44%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.35%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.06%) Private Cloud
3 6 (2.62%) Virtual Team
4 5 (2.18%) CMDB
4 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.75%) Robotics
6 2 (0.87%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.44%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.44%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.44%) Life Science
7 1 (0.44%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.44%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.44%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 48 (20.96%) Linux
2 40 (17.47%) Unix
3 30 (13.10%) Solaris
4 8 (3.49%) Windows
5 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.75%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.44%) VMS
6 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (69.87%) Actionable Insight
2 83 (36.24%) Agile
3 55 (24.02%) Incident Management
4 46 (20.09%) DevOps
5 42 (18.34%) Artificial Intelligence
6 39 (17.03%) Software Engineering
7 37 (16.16%) Capacity Planning
8 36 (15.72%) ITSM
9 32 (13.97%) Problem-Solving
10 31 (13.54%) Performance Monitoring
11 30 (13.10%) Capacity Management
11 30 (13.10%) Performance Tuning
11 30 (13.10%) Release Management
12 28 (12.23%) Change Management
13 27 (11.79%) Web Development
14 23 (10.04%) Migration
15 20 (8.73%) Project Management
16 19 (8.30%) ITIL
17 18 (7.86%) Mentoring
18 16 (6.99%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (16.16%) SQL
2 36 (15.72%) JavaScript
3 33 (14.41%) Python
4 30 (13.10%) PL/SQL
5 19 (8.30%) C#
6 14 (6.11%) Java
7 7 (3.06%) TypeScript
8 4 (1.75%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.87%) VBA
10 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 201 (87.77%) SC Cleared
2 56 (24.45%) Degree
3 11 (4.80%) CCNA
3 11 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (2.18%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.18%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (0.87%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.44%) CISSP
8 1 (0.44%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.44%) GIAC
8 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.44%) PMP
8 1 (0.44%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (15.28%) SLA
2 11 (4.80%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.18%) WCAG
4 3 (1.31%) COBIT
5 2 (0.87%) QA
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (13.10%) Oracle RAC
2 7 (3.06%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (13.10%) Data Guard
1 30 (13.10%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (3.06%) Terraform
3 6 (2.62%) Ansible
4 4 (1.75%) OpenSSO
4 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.31%) OpenView
6 2 (0.87%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.44%) SCCM
7 1 (0.44%) WSUS
Vendors
1 57 (24.89%) Oracle
2 37 (16.16%) Remedy
3 32 (13.97%) Microsoft
4 30 (13.10%) Sun
5 27 (11.79%) ESRI
6 26 (11.35%) Cisco
7 14 (6.11%) Avaya
7 14 (6.11%) Mitel
8 12 (5.24%) CheckPoint
9 11 (4.80%) Fortinet
9 11 (4.80%) McAfee
9 11 (4.80%) Palo Alto
10 5 (2.18%) ServiceNow
10 5 (2.18%) Sparx
10 5 (2.18%) VMware
11 3 (1.31%) Blue Prism
11 3 (1.31%) BMC
11 3 (1.31%) Databricks
11 3 (1.31%) HP
11 3 (1.31%) UiPath